I finally got around to reading @timbray 's "Bye, Twitter" blog post that everyone's rightfully sharing, and the last paragraph of this section resonated.
Full post here, if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/26/Bye-Twitter
@vmbrasseur @timbray Yep - it's been a few weeks now, I was less sceptical than Tim 😉
Feeding the algorithm turns out was actually mentally exhausting. Here I don't feel the need to post something every 5 minutes or react to some posts.
Not missing quote replies. Actually having pleasant convos.
My mobile browser regularly deletes all cookies etc.
If I didn't have separate apps for a lot of things, I would have to log in (as in: type in my username and password) again into any of these things, every time I want to use it...
Even on my laptop, I have a lot of things in separate desktop clients instead of using the web version - to take load away from the web browser and not rely on it for everything. It's a web browser, not an operating system...
To me, Twitter was the combination of connections to people & media consumption. I can currently see how these two would split up nicely between Mastodon (for connection to persons) and Post.news (at least eventually). But the serendipitous emergence of a global "everything platform" like Twitter is indeed unlikely to be repeated.
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